Repository of Illustrations

produced for Deliverable 5.1.2
by WP5 of the TERENCE project

Authors: Blanka Radnóti, Barbara Szepesi-Szűcs, Júlia Mata, Zsófia Ruttkay (MOME),   contact: ruttkay@mome.hu                 

Date: 18.2.2013

The task

From the revised DoW (26.6.2012), the description of D5.1.2 is :  „Second repository of illustrations; M27; Other; MOME: The deliverable will contain the revised
illustrations (for stories, games and their related items), for the stories and games of deliverables D2.2b and D4.3b, and necessary for the long scale evaluation of WP7.”

Timing

On the 2nd year Review Meeting on 27th November the due date M27 was shifted to M28 on the request of WP5 leader. The request was justified by two facts:

- the specification of the smart game images were provided for WP5 later than envisioned, since 15.11.2012, in chunks (actually, up to 9.1.2013)

- it would not have been possible to produce the great number of these images by M27.

Finally WP5 completed the production of all the illustrations with a 2 weeks delay. The delay was caused  by several revisions of game image content  definitions (up to 9 January), and the final 1287 number of game illustrations which is much bigger than the 1020 estimate used  in November in the WP5 presentation  (which was based on Release 1 numbers).

Format of the current online repository

The repository gives a summary of the produced visual materials. The book illustrations were uploaded to the SVN site, and the game images were sent per book/story in a common zip file to the contact person for integration to the sw, as agreed with partners in WP6 and the TERENCE project manager.

In this website we use .pdf format, and a common preview format instead of the individual .ai format of the images.  
In the 2nd year review report the 5.1a site was criticised as images were not available one by one, and in the original format used for the sw repository.
We chose, all the same, again  this condensed .pdf option instead of the (for Release 2 actually  used) .ai format because of three reasons:

- one would not be able to see the .ai format from web browsers, but one would need to download each  and open them  one by one with dedicated illustration program,

- the per story preview (with a zoom in function) gives a better overview of the images than one by one set of loose illustrations , and all illustrations may be viewed in this way too.

Summary of materials produced for Release 2

Altogether, MOME in WP5 produced 156 revised illustrations for 25 stories in Book1-4, 46 new illustrations for Book 5,
fitted to new format 25  character cards and designed 5 new  ones for Book5, designed 3 additional avatars and revised 7 previously made ones, and produced a total of 1287 small  designs for smart games for  all the stories in Book1-5.

Visuals for stories

All previously produced illustrations (for Book1-4) had to be redesigned. The redesigned was necessary because of:

-  the new GUI layout chosen for Release 2 by partners, leaft smaller space and different shape for the story text+ illustration, and

-  different level versions of a story text per page – some with increased length than the original version – had to be shown with the same illustration.
Illustrations  had to be fitted to one of  3 templates agreed upon for Release

As each of these  templates had a different proportion and significantly smaller area than the original size used for Release 1 illustrations, the “redesign” implied complete  redrawing about 1/3 of the previously made illustrations, due to the changed format, and significant changes in content for another 1/3. In addition, for certain problems reported in the small-scale evaluation report were  made in content of a 202  illustrations. (Somecontent-related  mismatches pointed at the small scale evaluation report were due to the fact that for the review different story text ofversions were used than for which the drawings were made for.)  Finally, due to some text revisions for Release 2,  the text division for pages had to be checked,  and in about a dozen  cases extra pages had to be inserted or page division had to be revised – which had effect on the visual content for these pages.
Maps had to be redesigned to accommodate new (un-proportional) sizes.
Below we give a summary of the revised  and new illustrations made for the total of 5 books and 32 stories, per Book and Story. The title of the stories corresponding to codes in the table can be found here.

Below the avatars for Release 2 are available.

Smart games illustrations

The table below contains per story the illustrations made for the different type of smart games (ca 40/story).  The individual images are available as .ai files, according to the definitions given  here.